Posting this out of curiosity to see how widespread the air damage is from the reported Canadian wildfires.

As of mid-afternoon yesterday 6/06/2023, the air quality was noticeable bad. I felt what I thought was pollen in my eyes riding my bike home early in the afternoon, but now I'm guessing that were the particulates from the Canadian smoke.

Even worse was actually smelling the wildfires last night despite the fact I was indoors.

Curious if folks in other locales in the US are feeling the effects from this madness.

This reminds me of all the wildfires that seemingly hit California every summer in recent years; now I wonder how bad it is for folks in states surrounding Cali every summer.

live with seemingly every summer now.

thanks climate change.

i'm praying we get off easy this year. if it's not our own WA forest fires, it comes down from ones in Canada.

I can’t tell but I only went outside and live next to a forest/park.

Probably bad if you live downtown

if you can.

that shit will affect your respiratory system.

and anyone else that has to earn a living being outside for extended hours while doing some form of physical activity.

listen to them

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

A few years back when in it was bad in norcal an reno, after a week of that shit I just started feeling drained and tired.

I'm pulling for y'all. This shit sucks.

I live on the west end of the city, and normally have a very clear view of the entire skyline. Yesterday we couldn't even see the CN Tower from our windows due to all the smoke/haze.

AQI is around 140 now. I went out for a run early morning when it was closer to 100 because I knew it would progressively worsen throughout the day.

in Northern Virginia and they aint letting the kids go to recess

the sky looks much worse than it did this same time yesterday.

I should have mentioned that I work and reside in Brooklyn, NY.

Scary thing is that according to the news, the smoke is supposed to get worse at approximately 4PM - 7PM tonight.

it's gonna be like that for awhile, at least if it's anything like what we get on this side.

greedy people are going to destroy earth.

and its about this type of shit right here being the new normal

https://fire.airnow.gov

That website has information I was trying to gather with this post. According to that website, there are particulates on both coasts. The situation is a lot more dire here on the East Coast though.

Around lunch time you couldn’t see the sun even though it wasn’t cloudy, and cars had their lights on. Smells like a campfire. I have a headache and red eyes. It’s bad.

I think today way supposed to be mostly sunny, but the smoke clouds make it legit hazy and kinda dim outside.

Shit really blocking the sun.

Edit: In Philadelphia.

Avoid doing cardio out in it. Break out your best covid masks.

This has become a regular thing late summer where I live. Running/biking in it.... you're going to take a lot more particulate matter in--not good. Brings the whole mood everywhere down. Sun a red disc can look pretty cool. Weatherman's predictions of when it'll clear? I've learned not to trust them. Smoke/fires are far harder to forecast than weather from clouds

>This has become a regular thing late summer where I live.

Where is this?

never happened 90s-00s...I think 2016 the smoke hit bad...and it has been around late every summer since (some years worse than others).

Historically, it happened sometimes. A few instances post-wwii, 19th century, and in Native oral tradition. But it's been bad in recent years.

This year I think we are set-up for possibly worst yet. Seattle spring used to be 'don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes'--clouds moving through fast, some showers, a sun-break, some more drizzle, etc. This May: tons of blue sky, not a cloud days. The Californians love it, but does not bode well for forest fire season/snow-pack/glaciers. We've already had days of smoke (from Canada).

But yea AQI last few years...we've been in those Qatar ranges for stretches. Two summers ago, there was a record-breaking heatwave. Eastern Washington (ag-land) hasn't been able to grow shit for wheat.

last summer was ok but bracing for some bad air this year due to the abnormally high precipitation here and further west over the past few weeks

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"To Each His Reach"

but.....

Fuck aliens.

people underestimate the effect of wildfire smoke and all the shit (read: plastic) that's caught up in it.

don't go outside and exercise if the air quality is bad

https://www.airnow.gov/ can show you stats (not quite real time) for your area

if you have n95s wear them outside, even if you can't smell or see the smoke check the data, it's still out there and affecting you

if you have air purifiers at home, use 'em

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

some people work outside, some people live outside, I feel like this should almost be a "national state of emergency" or something like that

they don't care about you

as long as you're well enough to come to work (so here's a free vaccine, get yo ass in the office) you're good to go.

we are on our own

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

Absolutely

Worst it got was outside smelling like charcoal embers.

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

shit is terrible up there

we got nothing in Charlotte right now thankfully

I wasn’t able to smell it a couple weeks ago when it was bad at first, but now the smell is undeniable. It’s also just crazy hazy everywhere.

but outside tho

gotta keep that n95 on

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

as of yesterday a crop of midwestern cites near Canada has worst air in the world status as result of the fires.

How orange was the sky for you folks?

It wasn't nearly as bad here in NYC as it was for your locale and I swear I could feel particles hitting my eyes as I was riding my bike last night.

This is going to be a rough two months as temperatures get higher and higher I'm certain.

it was just smoky like an N64 game hiding pop in

but the air quality can be just as bad even when it doesn't look like that

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at